FreshWater Watch High School students training @ Liceo Linguistico Giovanni Pascoli, Florence (Italy).

The outreach part of POSEIDOMM project has started yesterday with the first high-school students in Italy joining the global community of FreshWater Watch citizen scientists! After a training at school and a training outdoor, here you go, ready to get samples! In the picture you can see the students of IV D/L (Liceo Linguistico G. Pascoli, Florence, Italy) and science teacher Prof. Bruna Figliomeni. The students will use the data collected for their science exam at the end of next school year (end of high school, 2017). We will tell you more in the next months…have a nice summer and nice sampling everyone!

Lanzarote, Canary islands (Spain), May 25th:

Micro2016 International Conference “Fate and Impact of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems: From the Coastline to the Open Sea” held in Lanzarote, POSEIDOMM talk given by Luisa (Session V):

Tackling microplastics on land: citizen observatories of anthropogenic litter dynamics within POSEIDOMM project

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”

— Jacques Yves Cousteau, Oceanographer

One hour with highly interested and motivated students of the IV D/L Liceo Linguistico Giovanni Pascoli (Florence, Italy) about marine debris…check out the NOAA Trash Talks that helped me a lot for this class!

Art by Bonnie Louise Monteleone, The Plastic Ocean Project